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The quality of government
TL;DR: The authors investigated empirically the determinants of the quality of governments in a large cross-section of countries and found that countries that are poor, close to the equator, ethnolinguistically heterogeneous, use French or socialist laws, or have high proportions of Catholics or Muslims exhibit inferior government performance.
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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Paul Collier,Anke Hoeffler +1 more
TL;DR: Collier and Hoeffler as discussed by the authors compare two contrasting motivations for rebellion: greed and grievance, and show that many rebellions are linked to the capture of resources (such as diamonds in Angola and Sierra Leone, drugs in Colombia, and timber in Cambodia).
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Cross-National Prevalence and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation, Plans, and Attempts
Matthew K. Nock,Guilherme Borges,Evelyn J. Bromet,Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Annette L. Beautrais,Ronny Bruffaerts,Wai Tat Chiu,Giovanni de Girolamo,Semyon Gluzman,Ron de Graaf,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Yueqin Huang,Elie G. Karam,Ronald C. Kessler,Jean Pierre Lepine,Daphna Levinson,María Elena Medina-Mora,Yutaka Ono,Jose Posada-Villa,David R. Williams +21 more
TL;DR: There is cross-national variability in the prevalence of suicidal behaviours, but strong consistency in the characteristics and risk factors for these behaviours.
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
TL;DR: The End of Poverty: Economic possibilities for our time as discussed by the authors is a book review of the book written by Jeffrey Sacks (2005), an American renounced economist and director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University.
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Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units
Rudolf de Groot,Luke Brander,Sander van der Ploeg,Robert Costanza,Florence Bernard,Leon Braat,Michael Christie,Neville D. Crossman,Andrea Ghermandi,Lars Hein,Salman Hussain,Pushpam Kumar,Alistair McVittie,Rosimeiry Portela,Luis C. Rodriguez,Patrick ten Brink,Pieter van Beukering +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented an overview of the value of ecosystem services of 10 main biomes expressed in monetary units and showed that most of this value is outside the market and best considered as nontradable public benefits.
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Inhalable particulate matter and mitochondrial DNA copy number in highly exposed individuals in Beijing, China: a repeated-measure study
Lifang Hou,Xiao Zhang,Laura Dioni,Francesco Barretta,Chang Dou,Yinan Zheng,Mirjam Hoxha,Pier Alberto Bertazzi,Joel Schwartz,Shanshan Wu,Sheng Wang,Andrea A. Baccarelli +11 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated whether ambient PM exposure affects Mitochondrial DNA copy number (MtDNAcn) in a highly-exposed population in Beijing, China, and found that decreased blood MtDNAcn was associated with increased exposure to EC during work hours and recent ambient PM10 exposure.
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The global financial crisis can islamic finance help minimise the severity and frequency of such a crisis in the future
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tried to determine the primary cause or causes of financial crises that have plagued almost every country around the world over the last three decades, and argued that one of the major causes of these crises is the lack of adequate market discipline in the financial system, which leads to excessive lending, high leverage and, ultimately, the crisis.
Environmental burden of disease associated with inadequate housing: a method guide to the quantification of health effects of selected housing risks in the WHO European region.
TL;DR: This guide describes how to estimate the disease burden caused by inadequate housing conditions for the WHO European Region as well as for subregional and national levels and outlines the evidence linking housing conditions to health, and the methods for assessing housing impacts on population health.
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Population ageing and mortality during 1990-2017: A global decomposition analysis.
Xunjie Cheng,Yang Yang,David C. Schwebel,Zuyun Liu,Li Li,Peixia Cheng,Peishan Ning,Guoqing Hu +7 more
TL;DR: It is found that population ageing was associated with substantial changes in numbers of deaths between 1990 and 2017, but the attributed proportion of deaths varied widely across country income levels, countries, and causes of death.
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How Desirable is the South Asian Free Trade Area? A Quantitative Economic Assessment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a global computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the desirability of SAFTA and showed that under preferential liberalisation, small countries in the region would gain little or even lose.